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PURSUED AND PURSUERS—Claude King, Mississippi halfback for Kittens, careens down field followed by a host of Aggies. King carried the ball 15 times for a total of 105 yards, gamed. HOLD ON HERE—Houston left halfback Jere Bice moves for yardage in the Kittens 20-6 victory over the Fish on Kyle Field last night. An unidentified Aggie hauls him down from the side. AGGIE FISH SCORE—as Quarterback Charles Schlemmer (circle) dives over from the one with 11:30 remaining in Thursday night’s first half after A&M recovered a Kitten OFF AND RUNNING—for some Fish yardage is halfback Gordon LeBeouf (37) being pursued by the Kittens’ guard, Sonny Long. Powerful Kittens Riddle Fish 20-6 In Season’s First Game By JOE BOYD Assistant Sports Editor Houston’s power-minded offense baffled A&M’s scanty freshman defense last night, mauling the Fish 20-fi. The Kittens riddled the Aggie line at will grinding out 241 yards on the sod of Kyle Field. Claude King, 170-pound Kitten halfback, staged a fabulous one- man show before a crowd of 5,000. The shifty speedster gained 104 yards rushing on 15 carries, rip ping off all three Houston touch downs. Gordon LeBoeuf, hard - hitting Fish half, totaled 41 yards on the ground for an average of 5.8 per try. Quarterback Charles Milstead carried the ball 10 times for a net g-ain of 30 yards. Milstead, whose ball-handling highlighted the one-sided tussle, racked up a 42.0 yard punting average. The deceptive high school All-American punted six times for 250 yards. The Aggie ground game netted only 117 yards, and three aerials handed barely nine more to the outclassed Fish. The Cadets fum bled eight times and lost four. Houston hobbled only four times, losing one. Milstead and King provided most of the individual thrills with Le Boeuf taking the third spotlight. The expected “even-stephen” clash never materialized and it was the Kittens big night. In their second series of downs, Harold Stephens handled the ball for the Kittens, handing off to Halfback Guy Hill. Hill ripped off a quick twelve yards for a first. King made seven on the next play and Hill added one. Stephens kept for one yard and a penalty against the Fish for delay rounded out the needed first. Fullback Steve Slo- nac started the next drive, picking- up two yards and King swept left end for the game’s first score. Slo- nac booted the extra point for an early 7-0 Kitten lead. In the closing moments of the initial quarter Hill and Stephens lead another Kitten drive 58 yards. King carried three times during the march, going up the middle for his second touchdown on the third try. This time Slonac’s con version was no good and the Fish boosted their margin to 13-0 with 2:30 left in the initial period. In the second quarter, Robert Gamer recovered a Kitten fumble on the Houston four yard line. Quarterback Charles Schlemmer kept for no gain on the first play and Jimmy Frost took for the sec ond attempt, gaining one. On the third down Schlemmer tried anoth er sneak for one. An off - side penalty moved the ball to the Hous ton one-yard line where George Bodey tried for no gain. On the fourth down Schlemmer kept the oval for the lone Fish TD. Edgar Cabell’s conversion try was no good, but a Kitten holding- penalty brought the ball back where Schlemmer attempted to boot the point. Again the kick was short. The score remained 13-G, Kittens. A1 Taylor recovered Robert San der’s onside kick at the Kitten 49. The Fish couldn’t move, however, and a 15-yard penalty wiped out the feeble gain. Another five-yard walk-back forced the Fish to punt on third down. Schlemmer’s kick was good for 37. Stephens manipulated the pig skin for three consecutive first downs with King and Slonac pro viding the power. A fourth down keeper failed , to net enough for another Kitten first and the Fish took over on their own 17. Le Boeuf led off with three and Mil stead added six for a quick first. Another Milstead-LeBoeuf com bination ground out another first down before Marvin Dibbins in tercepted a LeBoeuf aerial intend ed for Henry Colwell. Slonac recovered Jimmy Frost’s fourth period fumble on the Fish 34. King ripped off a quick eight yards on the first snap and Slo nac added five for a first. King climaxed a three-play 34-yard drive on a 19-yard jaunt across paydirt with 6:30 remaining in the game. Slonac converted success fully and scoring ended 20-6, with the Kittens ahead everywhere ex cept in punts and penalties. Final statistics were: First downs Fish 7 Kittens 14 Rushing Yardage 117 241 Passing Yardage 9 28' Passes Attempted 3 12 Passes Completed 1 3 Passes Intercepted 0 1 Punts for Yds. 9 for 852 6 for 159 Punting average 39.1 26.5 Fumbles 8 4 Fumbles Lost 4 1 Yds. Penalized 140 114 Scores 6 20 The Battalion Number 169: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1956 Price Five Cents Texas Senatorial Primary Off; Blundell Quits Chairman Post NAACP IriaF Mysteriously Called to Halt TYLER, Tex.—(2P) — The NAACP injunction hearing - which the organization calls its greatest - crisis recessed mysteriously yesterday. Neither the judge nor the attor neys involved would say why. Dist. Judge Otis T. Dunagan said, “Legal questions that could be very serious have been called to my attention by both sides. I must have time to study them and will give my ruling Friday.” Court will be called into session at 9 a. m. He said the questions concerned the restraining order already in effect and the temporary injunc tion asked by the state against operations of the National Assn, for the Advancement of Coloi’ed People in Texas. The recess was announced after Atty. Gen. John Ben Sheppard conferred with NAACP chief at torney Thurgood Marshall and other attorneys. Eai-lier, the state introduced an NAACP master plan to use chil dren of what it called “sympa thetic whites and Latin - Ameri cans” as shock troops in break ing down the color line in Texas public schools. It sought to have the parents enter their children in all-Negro schools. Foreign Student Enrollment Given A total of 138 foreign students representing 36 countries are en rolled for the fall term at A&M College, with 27 degree candidates from Mexico leading the numerical parade. Second is Pakistan with 16, followed by Peru with 11 and 10 from India. Other countries listed, with num ber of students enrolled, are El Salvador and Panama, 7 each; Bra zil, 6; Cuba, 5; Bolivia, Chile, Par aguay, Egypt, Iraq and Venezuela, 3 each; Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia and Korea, 2 each. Africa, Canada, China, Colom bia, Cyprus, Denmark, Iran, Japan, Nicaragua, Norway, Philippines, Spain and Uruguay are each rep resented by one student. Exec Committee Leaves Decision Up To Shivers AUSTIN—(2P)—The state Democratic executive commit tee yesterday at least temporarily shelved the idea of holding a U.S. Senatorial primary, and accepted with regret the res ignation of Chairman Jim Blundell of Dallas. These fast-breaking unexpected developments came as a surprise to many committee members, who earlier in the day had declared their intention of holding a primary or pri maries to name Democratic candidate for the U.S'. Senate post to be vacated by Price Daniel, the Democratic nominee for governor. There had been no inkling that Blundell, who has bMd the office less than a month, planned to quit. The committee acted quick ly to replace him, naming Jim Lindsey of Texarkana to the key party post after Daniel had joined Blundell in endors ing him. Lindsey is speaker of the state House of Representatives. Blundell, an advertising and public relations man and long a close political friend of Daniel, in sisted there was no political sig nificance in his resignation. He said he was forced to resign for family and business reasons. The subcommittee’s recommen dation, adopted unanimously, laid the primary I’esponsibility for its action on Gov. Shivers. It listed two practical obstacles: “1. The governor of Texas, Hon. Allan Shivers, has not yet called a special election, and therefore it is impossible at this meeting to designate a day or days on which to hold such primary elections or to make other necessary plans therefore. “2. In spite of the fact that a majority of the Democratic coun ty chan-man replying have indica ted that they could and would con duct and finance such primaries, 61 chairmen have replied that they can not finance them. Under pre sently existing circumstnces, this would, in effect, prevent some peo ple from having a voice in the selection of a Democratic nomi- Oath of Office Set For Tuesday Approximately 650 cadet offi cers will receive the oath of office Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. President David H. Morgan will be the principal speaker and Lt. Gen. Ernest O. Thompson, state railroad commission, will present the traditional saber of office to Cadet Colonel of the Corps Jack Lunsford. In addition to Gen. Thompson, special guests include Chancellor M. T. Harrington, Harold Dunn, member of the A&M System Board of Directors; the Executive Com mittee of the college and Brig. Gen. Robert Ives, deputy command er of the 36th Infantry Division and chairman of the Military Af fairs Committee of the Houston Chambtr of Commerce. The ceremony, which will be at tended by the entire Corps, also open to the public. Siminang Attends Meeting In Dallas Dr. C. M. Simmang attended the 11th annual Petroleum-Mechanical Engineering conference sponsored by the Peteroleum Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers recently in Dallas. He served as chairman of the air cooling session. A highlight of the visit to Dallas was the opportunity to meet Joseph W. Barker, national A. S. nee. Some Democrats had been urg ing the primary to make sure that the Republican candidate for the post, Thad Hutcheson of Houston, would not walk away with the job in a free-for-all, top-man-wins spe cial election. They ai’gued that a lone Repub lican running against a big field | Retired Prof Dies At Home After Illness Dr. R. K. Fletcher, retiree professor of entomology, dieo yesterday at his home in Dal las. He had taught at A&M for 30 years before his re tirement in 1949. Pt’evious to his retirement Fletcher was associate professoi of entomology and research entolo mologist for the Agricultural Ex periment Station on the campus Besides teaching, Fletcher did re search for the Department ol Entomology. The late professor was born ii Curwinsville, P e n n a . on Aug. 6 1884, and received his BA degre< from the University of Maine ii 1917. His MA and PhD were fron Ohio State U. in 1919 and 1928 respectively. He came to A&M ii 1919 as an assistant professor o entomology. ’ Fletcher resided at 2928 Rose dale Ave., Dallas, at the time o his death yestet-day. He moved t Dallas following his retirement ii 1940. Illness was his cause for re tirement at that time. He had beei a semi-invalid for the past tw years. One of the many honors tha Fletcher received was a fellowshi; in the Texas Academy of Science He was also a member of th American Association of Economi Entomologists. His research studie included work as a biologist am controller of cotton insects. Fletcher is survived by his wife who lives at the Dallas address. M. E. president and to renew : 0 f Democrats would stand a good acquaintances with several of his former students. A&S Council Meeting The Student Arts and Science Council will meet at 7:15 p. m. Monday in room 3D of the Memor ial Student Center. Officers will be elected. chance to win. Weather Today Clear to partly cloudy is the forecast. Temperature at 10:30 a.m. was 80 degrees. High yester day was 98 degrees and law was 63 degrees. Monday Last Day For Senate Filing Filings for 35 Student Sena vacancies to be filled from t sophomore, junior and senior chi ses, College View, day studen and civilian dormitories clo Monday. Of these vacancies, 15 will ; filled from the senior class, | from the junior class, six from t j sophomore class, two from d; I students, one from College Vic ! and one from each of the civiii; dormitories. In addition, the vice-presider from the four classes are membe of the Senate. The election will held Wednesday, Oct. 17.